 | William Marsden - 1784 - 424 pages
...expofed to the immediate influence of the two great luminaries, the water; from their direct impulfe, is liable to more violent agitation than nearer, the...fuppofed more buoyant; to feel lefs reftraint from the iluggiih principle of matter ; to have lefs gravity ; and therefore to be more obedient to external... | |
 | William Marsden - 1784 - 408 pages
...expofed to the immediate influence of the two great luminaries, the water, from their direct impulfe, is liable to more violent agitation than nearer the poles,...a larger circle being defcribed in the fame time, tue waters thereabout, from the ftronger centrifugal force, may be fuppofed more buoyant; to feel lefs... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 452 pages
...irregularity of the furfs, he lays, is perceived only within the remoter limits of the trade-winds. -But the equatorial parts of the earth performing their...force, may be fuppofed more buoyant ; to feel lefs rettraint from the iluggilh principle of matter; to have lefs gravity ; and therefore to be more obedient... | |
 | William Granger - 1804 - 688 pages
...irregularity of the furfs, he fays, is perceived only within the remoter limits of the trade-winds. But the equatorial parts of the earth performing their...fuppofed more buoyant ; to feel lefs reftraint from the fluggilh principle pf matter ; to have lefs gravity ; and therefore to be more .Vot. II. No. 16. 5... | |
 | 1821 - 448 pages
...direct impulse, is liable to more violent agitation than nearer tne poles, where their power is feit only by indirect communication. The equatorial parts of the earth performing their dinrnal revolution with greater velocity than the rest, a larger circle being described in the same... | |
 | 1842 - 496 pages
...irregularity of the surfs, he says, is perceived only within the remoter limits of the trade-,winds. But the equatorial parts of the earth performing their diurnal revolution with greater velocity than the rest, a larger circle being described in the same time, the waters thereabout, from the stronger oentrifugal... | |
 | 1823 - 940 pages
...irregularity of the surfs, he says, is perceived only within the remoter limits of the trade-winds. But the equatorial parts of the earth performing their diurnal revolution with greater velocity than the rest, a larger circle being described in the same time, the waters thereabout, from the stronger centrifugal... | |
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... is liable to more violent agitation than nearer, the poles, where their power is felt only by indirect communication. The equatorial parts of the earth performing their diurnal revolution with greater velocity than the reft, a larger circle being... 